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Is Google or PayPal Leading the Charge in Mobile Payments?
PayPal made a big splash yesterday, saying that it now has commitments from 16 major retailers to roll out PayPal at the register. Additionally, it said it is partnering with four software providers to...
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Does Apple's Passbook App Make Cents?
In many ways, the iPhone is already a wallet. I scan my phone to pay for a latte at Starbucks, I snap pictures of checks to make bank deposits. Once, I used it to buy a few screws at Home Depot without...
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LivingSocial Says It Has No Plans to Be a Mobile Payments Provider
LivingSocial has no plans to build a payment system for local merchants, but it does see itself playing a role in building loyalty programs and other merchant services. During an all-day media event...
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LevelUp's Plan to Supercharge the Mobile Payments Market: Make It Free
Every time you use plastic to pay for a cup of coffee or a pack of cigarettes, look closely, because you can probably see the merchant cringe. That’s because, for every transaction, they usually pay...
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The Food Truck Revolution: Now Armed With Point-of-Sale iPads
The food truck revolution is in full swing, with chefs on the roll, serving up everything from your basic panini to an artisanal pizza from a 20-foot shipping container equipped with a roaring wood...
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Google Wallet Now Supporting Multiple Cards, Like, Um, a Real Wallet
One of the reasons why mobile payments haven’t been widely adopted is because the services aren’t easy enough to use. And Google Wallet has been one of the biggest offenders. But starting today, the...
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Amex Knocks Google for Misleading Comments About Its Role in Google Wallet
American Express has not formally agreed to participate in Google Wallet, which is why it was surprised yesterday when Google said it, along with Visa, Discover and MasterCard, were now forms of...
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PayPal Trumps Square's Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover
Under a new partnership being announced with Discover, PayPal is super-sizing the number of U.S. merchant locations at which it will be accepted — more than seven million. “The whole industry has been...
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Groupon Promising Merchants "Lowest Cost" Payments Service (And It's Using an...
Groupon is rolling out a new payments service today, which it hopes will create new reasons for merchants to continue using the Chicago daily deal provider. In an interview, Mihir Shah, Groupon’s VP of...
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Investors Steering Dollars Away From Social Games Ever Since Zynga's IPO
Zynga’s public offering 10 months ago marks the peak for social gaming investments, with venture capital moving sharply away from the sector ever since. “Our prediction that the Zynga IPO might have...
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Visa's PayPal-Like Wallet Gains Traction With Partners; Will Consumers Follow?
After signing up dozens of merchants and banks for its digital wallet platform over the past year, Visa is now seeking consumers. Images of Money Visa’s V.me service is similar to eBay’s PayPal and...
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When Does Groupon -- Still at More Than 80 Percent Off -- Become a Deal for...
Is it time for Groupon to be looking for a buyer? Wall Street is certainly enthusiastic for such an outcome — even grabbing onto a specious rumor that perhaps Google was sniffing around the troubled...
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Former PayPal Exec Sam Shrauger Lands at Visa After Brief Yahoo Stint
Sam Shrauger, a former PayPal executive who went to Yahoo for a month during the very short-lived Scott Thompson era, has resurfaced at Visa. Shrauger will be the head of global commercialization,...
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Should VeriFone's Exit From the Mobile Payments Space Worry Square?
VeriFone, a company that has proclaimed in the past that it will be playing “the role of Switzerland” in digital payments, is naming at least one technology that it won’t be agnostic about: Mobile...
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One Less Groupon Clone: J.P. Morgan Chase Acquires Bloomspot
Bloomspot, one of the smaller players in the coupon and loyalty market, is being acquired by Chase Bank, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase. The acquisition was reported by several media outlets,...
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Visa Blesses RIM's Mobile Payment Platform
When Research In Motion’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system launches at the end of this month, it will do so with its own mobile payment system. RIM said this week that Visa has approved its Secure...
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What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona
Mobile World Congress doesn’t really get going until the weekend. But here at AllThingsD we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona. We’ve been...
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Visa Taps Samsung for NFC Payment Deal
Visa and Samsung are announcing a deal on Monday that will see future Samsung devices come ready out of the box to connect to the payment network. Samsung is among the initial partners for a broad Visa...
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Foursquare Opens Up Check-In Deals to More Kinds of Plastic
Aiming to beef up one of its longstanding revenue streams, Foursquare announced on Tuesday that it will now accept Visa, Mastercard and debit cards in conjunction with its check-in deals program, an...
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Keep an Eye on the Software Inside Samsung's New Galaxy
No doubt when Samsung shows off its Galaxy S IV later Thursday, the first things everyone will notice are the device’s shape and its screen size. Then they will talk about the processor and other...
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Surprise, Surprise? A Lot of People (Especially Women) Really Like...
With this year’s Game Developers Conference around the corner, it’s open season for industry-commissioned studies of who’s playing what and why. Just this morning, we learned that having a better phone...
View ArticleWhat's in Your Digital Wallet? Lucrative Data
The rise of digital wallets, which allow consumers to pay for purchases through mobile devices, is sparking a battle among payment networks, banks and technology firms over lucrative transaction data....
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bKash Offers Mobile Banking for Bangladesh, a Country With Few Bank Accounts
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comFewer than 10 percent of the people in Bangladesh have bank accounts, but bKash, a joint Bangladeshi-American venture, says its mobile banking and payments platform fills the...
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True Link Financial Aims to Fight Senior Credit Scams
True Link Financial, which is launching today, is aimed at preventing scams that target vulnerable seniors, who lose billions of dollars annually through hidden credit charges, misleading marketing...
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In Battle for E-Commerce Dollars, Free Shipping Is Payment Networks' Weapon...
Call it the Amazon Prime Effect. With more and more people expecting some type of free shipping option when shopping online, traditional and digital payment networks are increasingly stepping in to...
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